On Friday, European Union leaders agreed to a deal to reduce the inflow of migrants from Africa. Later the same day, European Union leaders broke the deal.

It’s a ludicrous situation which only the EU could produce. While the paper-thin agreement clarifies that EU states will establish migrant holding facilities for new migrants traveling from North Africa across the Mediterranean Sea, it doesn’t explain how. As the BBC notes, “The [migrant] centers are meant be set up by EU states on a voluntary basis, but there are no details on which nations might host them or take in refugees.”